[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR630.208]

[Page 696]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 630--ABSENCE AND LEAVE--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart B--Definitions and General Provisions for Annual and Sick Leave
 
Sec. 630.208  Reduction in leave credits.

    (a) When the number of hours in a nonpay status in a full-time 
employee's leave year equals the number of basepay hours in a pay 
period, the agency shall reduce his credits for leave by an amount equal 
to the amount of leave the employee earns during the pay period. When 
the employee's number of hours of nonpay status does not require a 
reduction of leave credits, the agency shall drop those hours at the end 
of the employee's leave year. For the purpose of determining the 
reduction of leave credits under this paragraph when an employee has one 
or more breaks in service during a leave year, the agency shall include 
all hours in a nonpay status (other than nonpay status during a 
fractional pay period when no leave accures) for each period of service 
during the leave year in which annual leave accrued.
    (b) An employee who is in a nonpay status for his entire leave year 
does not earn leave.
    (c) When a reduction in leave credits results in a debit to an 
employee's annual leave account at the end of a leave year, the agency 
shall:
    (1) Carry the debit forward as a charge against the annual leave to 
be earned by the employee in the next leave year; or
    (2) Require the employee to refund the amount paid him for the 
period covering the excess leave that resulted in the debit.
    (d) A period covered by an employee's refund for unearned advanced 
leave is deemed not a nonpay status under this section.